Hello,I tried to a function wrapper for my website which calls ExecuteQuery(...). I got this error when I tried to display the output from the internet browser:Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Windows.DesktopSearch.Query.SearchDesktopClass' to interface type ...

I have ALL the problems encountered by some people removing MS DeskTop Search from my computer. I removed it using all the tricks I know + those given by members. Nothing works, I still get the message that the program is already installed on my computer everytime I try to re-install it. Now, ...

Below are several links that you might find useful in working with Windows Desktop Search: Windows Desktop Search homepage http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx Windows Desktop Search FAQs http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/enterprise/faq.mspx Windows Desktop ...

I get a message that says #msntb_toolbar_full_name# is unable to load its config file. if you have recently upgraded to a newer version of the # msntb_toolbar_full_name# and have not restarted your computer since the upgrade, please try restarting your computer , if the problem persits, please ...

I get a message that says #msntb_toolbar_full_name# is unable to load its config file. if you have recently upgraded to a newer version of the # msntb_toolbar_full_name# and have not restarted your computer since the upgrade, please try restarting your computer , if the problem persits, please ...

Internet - Troubleshooting. Problem: A user of an windows xp desktop can't access the internet through his/her internet browser.The LEDs on the NIC are on. Could anyone tell me the steps to follows to troubleshoot such a problem. The wall connection to the network works. So the problem is only ...

I ran into 2 problems with WDS version 2.06.0000.2083. I have just installed WDS for the first time on XP SP2. I don't have MSN Search Toolbar installed. My Outlook setup doesn't use Exchange and just connects to my ISP to retrieve email. The problem I have is that Outlook crashes on exit. I ...

<div>What interface and registry settings do I use to supply the picture for the Preview box in the Windows Desktop Search window?</div> <div>I tried adding an IViewObject2 to my IFilter DLL but it never gets called.</div>

I had been using WDS with no problem, but since replacing my hard drive (I did a full backup then restored the whole lot to a new drive) I have not been able to get ANY search results from it. The only other problem I had after the restore was with Office 2003, but after copying in the MSI ...

Is there a way to connect to a Sql-Server Full text search catelog and display the result in the WDS UI? If not, is there a releasedate planned to implement this feature? Thanks, Gerard

Hi In terms of the Windows Indexing Service and IFilters you can register custom property sets and return data for these custom properties when your IFilter is called. In the MSN-DS (WDS) dev guide at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx they mention that your IFilter should return values for ...

Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks ...

Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks ...

Hi,Can anyone advise why all my desktop icons and taskbar have vanished, all I am left with is the background. The system appears slower than it was, yet I have run several virus checks to no avail. I am 'protected by McAfee'. Another feature is that when I call up for some programs/files ...

wiwth your desktop index and cannot continue. Please reinstall WDS here: ... So I goes to the toolbar.msn.com site - download it, and it (the installer) tells me that it is earlier than the WDS I have installed. WDS is not indexing Outlook (I have a connection to Exchange Server - but store ...

Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks ...

I'm using WDS for quite a while now, but there are two things missing. When I search for e-mails I sometimes miss the column "To", there is only the column "From". There is to my knowledge no way to add the column manually. The other thing is that e-mails in plain text ...

Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks ...

Hi All, Suppose I want to give a command to the indexer to start indexing from my program and not from the WDS. How do I do it? How can I give a command to the indexer to index locations that I specify from my program and not from the WDS? Is it possible to control the indexer from outside at ...

The first, I want to start the msn index process with index path explicitly in my application. Are there any command lines or APIs and so on to do this? The second, when I searched a file like “a.doc”, and previewed it. Then I delete “a.doc” in some ways, and search “a.doc” in WDS, the “a.doc...

I cannot search from IE 6 Address Bar any longer, The defaults are set, and it used to display results in the main window; I can still go to a specific web site, example: I can type www.microsoft.com and it will go to that site, but if I just type in "x", where x is my search name of an item, I ...

Is there a way to connect to a Sql-Server Full text search catelog and display the result in the WDS UI? If not, is there a releasedate planned to implement this feature? Thanks, Gerard

I ran into 2 problems with WDS version 2.06.0000.2083.I have just installed WDS for the first time on XP SP2. I don't have MSN Search Toolbar installed. My Outlook setup doesn't use Exchange and just connects to my ISP to retrieve email. The problem I have is that Outlook crashes on exit. I ...

I cannot search from IE 6 Address Bar any longer, The defaults are set, and it used to display results in the main window; I can still go to a specific web site, example: I can type www.microsoft.com and it will go to that site, but if I just type in "x", where x is my search name of an item, I ...

Hi All,Suppose I want to give a command to the indexer to start indexing from my program and not from the WDS.How do I do it?How can I give a command to the indexer to index locations that I specify from my program and not from the WDS?Is it possible to control the indexer from outside at ...

Can I use WDS as the search engine to find documents in a web application?Scenario:- I have a website called http://www.myportal.com/ running on Windows Server 2003 SP1.- I have hundreds of documents stored in the http://www.myportal.com/documents/ directory.- I want to create the web page ...

I have installed MS desktop search on WK3 server. I want all the users who log on locally on the machine to use the same index (residing at c:\SearchIndex) and other settings. I want to index a specific folder only e.g. c:\mydata. Currently, the wizard is run for each new user, on first login, ...

The first, I want to start the msn index process with index path explicitly in my application. Are there any command lines or APIs and so on to do this?The second, when I searched a file like “a.doc”, and previewed it. Then I delete “a.doc” in some ways, and search “a.doc” in WDS, the “a.doc...

Steve Ickman, a WDS developer, posts some very useful information for developers that want to leverage WDS in their apps. http://spaces.msn.com/members/WDSTech/Also, my own blog contains some additional information you might find ...

I want to write a full-text search server based on WDSQuery. This server is .NET Remoting enabled. I wrote following code to do the task: SearchDesktopClass wds = new SearchDesktopClass(); wds.ExecuteSearch (...); // InvalidCastException When I tried to run this code by remote method call , ...

Is it possible to have Windows Desktop Search index when the user is logged out? ie. have it run as a service?

We use Outlook 2000 in our office and use one or more personal folders (.pst). WDS can search in these personal folders, it displays the results and you can view the result in the right plane (= read the e-mail). But when I double click the e-mail in WDS, Outlook shows an error message: "Cannot ...

HiIn terms of the Windows Indexing Service and IFilters you can register custom property sets and return data for these custom properties when your IFilter is called.In the MSN-DS (WDS) dev guide at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx they mention that your IFilter should return values for all ...

Hi, I'm having a problem to kill a process. For your information, the process is not even listed in the task manager. I would like to delete that particular file, but it seems like there's a process of software currently associated with that file.When i try to rename, move or delete that ...

HiIn terms of the Windows Indexing Service and IFilters you can register custom property sets and return data for these custom properties when your IFilter is called.In the MSN-DS (WDS) dev guide at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx they mention that your IFilter should return values for all ...

We use Outlook 2000 in our office and use one or more personal folders (.pst). WDS can search in these personal folders, it displays the results and you can view the result in the right plane (= read the e-mail). But when I double click the e-mail in WDS, Outlook shows an error message: "Cannot ...

Hi,Can anyone advise why all my desktop icons and taskbar have vanished, all I am left with is the background. The system appears slower than it was, yet I have run several virus checks to no avail. I am 'protected by McAfee'. Another feature is that when I call up for some programs/files ...

I'm able to have an ActiveSync connection (with partnership) to two PC's. When I try a third PC, it always ask me yo delete one of the other two, which is not to my liking.</P> I need at least those three connections to keep everything up-to-date very quick. anyone with some ideas?</P>

I want to write a full-text search server based on WDSQuery. This server is .NET Remoting enabled. I wrote following code to do the task: SearchDesktopClass wds = new SearchDesktopClass(); wds.ExecuteSearch (...); // InvalidCastException When I tried to run this code by remote method call , ...

I want to write a full-text search server based on WDSQuery. This server is .NET Remoting enabled. I wrote following code to do the task: SearchDesktopClass wds = new SearchDesktopClass(); wds.ExecuteSearch (...); // InvalidCastException When I tried to run this code by remote method call ...

I had been using WDS with no problem, but since replacing my hard drive (I did a full backup then restored the whole lot to a new drive) I have not been able to get ANY search results from it. The only other problem I had after the restore was with Office 2003, but after copying in the MSI ...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'd like to include a search form for WDS on my browser homepage and be able to submit the query from within that page, I'd like to see the results in the WDS. This works fine for msn.com (select desktop tab) but I cant seem to be able to get ...

I'm able to have an ActiveSync connection (with partnership) to two PC's. When I try a third PC, it always ask me yo delete one of the other two, which is not to my liking. I need at least those three connections to keep everything up-to-date very quick. anyone with some ideas? ...

Is it possible to have Windows Desktop Search index when the user is logged out? ie. have it run as a service?

Hi In terms of the Windows Indexing Service and IFilters you can register custom property sets and return data for these custom properties when your IFilter is called. In the MSN-DS (WDS) dev guide at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx they mention that your IFilter should return values for ...

We use Outlook 2000 in our office and use one or more personal folders (.pst). WDS can search in these personal folders, it displays the results and you can view the result in the right plane (= read the e-mail). But when I double click the e-mail in WDS, Outlook shows an error message: "Cannot ...

I want to write a full-text search server based on WDSQuery. This server is .NET Remoting enabled. I wrote following code to do the task: SearchDesktopClass wds = new SearchDesktopClass(); wds.ExecuteSearch (...); // InvalidCastException When I tried to run this code by remote method call ...

Hi, I'm having a problem to kill a process. For your information, the process is not even listed in the task manager. I would like to delete that particular file, but it seems like there's a process of software currently associated with that file.When i try to rename, move or delete that ...

Hello, My brother has a compact SR1103 with win XP & sp2. He had a CPU fry and replaced it, now his computer is a 486 (speed wise) The computer is so unbelievably slow and hangs during tasks. He has the error box popup for missing file: ibm0007.exe. It says the file should be in: ...

I'm trying to build my first custom protocol handler and search filter for Windows Desktop Search. As I build my code, what is the best strategy for debugging my protocol handler and filter? Is there a specific process that I should attach to? Are there any published documents on debugging ...